Fleet & Compliance Manager

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Fleet & Compliance Manager

Salary/Hourly Rate – £42,249 - £58,093 per annum (plus benefits) Hours – 40 hours per week Location & Postcode – Central Bedfordshire, MK41 0QS

As a Fleet & Compliance Manager at FCC Environment, you will support the Contract Manager in overseeing the daily health, safety, environmental and operational performance of the Central Bedfordshire Refuse & Recycling Collections & Street Cleansing contract. Working across the Bedford and Dunstable depots, you will help manage frontline service delivery, maintain client satisfaction and ensure legislative compliance.

This is a full-time position working 40 hours per week.

Our promise to you

• Competitive salary
• 25 days’ annual leave (full-time working), plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• On-the-job training and progression
• Recognition scheme
• Refer a friend
• Flexible benefits, including high street savings, cycle to work scheme and Gymflex membership, and many more (where applicable)
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and the Best Doctors Service via our Wellbeing Platform

What will you be doing?

• Supporting the Contract Manager with the safe, efficient and compliant day-to-day management of operations.
• Monitoring contracts and vehicle operations to maximise efficiency and minimise downtime.
• Maintaining service standards across collections, cleansing and associated services.
• Supervising the use of equipment, materials and personnel to make sure resources are used efficiently.
• Ensuring allocated work is completed on time, to specification and to a high standard.
• Supporting cost control and assisting with operational cost reports, forecasts and budgets.
• Monitoring attendance and ensuring a trained and motivated workforce is available to meet contract objectives.
• Overseeing and arranging skills training for site operatives.
• Conducting regular briefings with operatives around contract objectives, efficiency and productivity.
• Supporting compliance with health and safety, environmental requirements, planning consents, waste disposal permits and operator licences.
• Ensuring employees and subcontractors are appropriately trained and have the necessary valid licences and certificates of competence.
• Assisting with risk assessments, accident investigations and environmental impact assessments where required.

What are we looking for?

• Transport Manager CPC, or willingness to work towards this.
• WAMITAB and/or CoTC qualification, or willingness to work towards this.
• Operational management experience, ideally within the waste industry or a similar environment.
• Experience managing teams and delivering against operational and financial targets.
• Experience preparing and working to budgets.
• Knowledge of heavy goods vehicle fleet operations and associated transport legislation.
• Experience managing and developing a frontline workforce within an operational environment.
• A good understanding of business finance management.
• Numerate and IT literate, with the ability to use management information effectively.
• Strong health and safety awareness.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to represent the company with clients, regulatory bodies and community groups.
• A strong team leader with the drive and enthusiasm to inspire operational teams and continually improve ways of working.

About Us

We are FCC Environment, one of the nation’s leading waste and resource management companies. Committed to sustainability, we strive to minimise the amount of waste that ends up in landfill by transforming it into valuable resources wherever possible.

We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 4,500 people.

The profile of the UK's recycling and waste management industry has never been higher. We need people who are up for the challenge to help us tackle climate change. We need people with ideas. We need you. Together we will meet the UK’s waste management and energy recovery needs.

FCC Environment is an equal opportunities employer, we value diversity, and we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.

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